One of the first things we do each morning – in the wee small hours – is check in on the top stories our colleagues are talking about here in Texas, across the country, and around the world.

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Back in the second week of July this year, host David Brown noticed something: While papers across the country had different notions of the top story that week, there was an unusual consensus among the papers in South Texas: Nearly every single one included a front page story on a papal visit to South America.

Given how much diversity of interest one typically sees on the front pages of our newspapers, the similarity was nothing if not striking.

Pope Francis arrived in the U.S. this week at Joint Base Andrews in Washington, D.C. Back in Texas, we're asking why that story resonates here.